Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce
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Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good.
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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I actually ran into someone on Reddit who thought we should embrace it. They might be here too, I don't know.
How would one go about making a "font" that looks like the bonus panel? It's harder to learn all the logographs but you can fit a lot of information on a page that way.
just learn chinese
To answer your question: You'd have to have ligatures for every single word in existence so that is not possible.
I wonder what character set would work best for writing the English language. I'm legitimately thinking Korean could handle it better than the latin alphabet
Oh, can you expand on that a bit? I don't really know how Korean writing works.